Weekend Work

Phew - I'm glad to get back to work this morning. It's been a hectic weekend. My mother-in-law asked us to get her a Yankee Candle refil the next time we visited the garden centre.

So stupidly we visited on Saturday morning to purchase the refil for her. It only cost £6 so that wasn't too bad. The worrying thing is that the quick trip cost us £85. Unfortunately we purchased a number of plants so that gave a clue as to what the weekend was going to be like.

We were out Saturday afternoon, so after waking at a sensible time on Sunday we began working on the garden. We returned to the patch that we had worked on in March. This time we put in a number of annuals to give some instant colour. Will mean a bit of dead-heading over the summer, but hopefully this year will be able to benefit from the display when it appears.

We also tided up the remainder of the garden, with additional annuals being put all over the place. We also tided up a couple of large bushes that were hanging over everything else.

To top it all off, we then cleared the patio of all the winter rubbish. Anything green was thrown into some garden containers and any household trash was thrown in black bin backs ready for delivery to the dump. Once everything was cleared up, and the pots were all weeded, it was a case of bringing the garden furniture out of the garage. We've not got the barbeque and garden table and chairs out so I hope we get some good weather soon so that we can benefit from them.

The final task was to take a tip to the local amenity tip. That's a day out in its own right. I think the queue started about 1/2 a mile from the actual tip. Obviously with all the good weather everyone had been out in the garden working, but once we've got to the containers we were in and out in no time.

The only tasks remaining now are to clear the path at the side of the house, and to then cut the grass. We can't do that yet as it's just been treated by GreenThumb so we need to let their treatment settle for a few days.